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UNITED STATESg 'PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HAYMAN J OYOE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

WAGON-BODY.

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,448, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed July 8, 1898. fierlalllo. 685,394. (No model.)

T0 all wiz/0m, it may cncern:

Be it known that I, JOHN HAYMAN J oYoE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wagons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a skeleton-body wagon.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved iron or steel skeleton frame wagon-body.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the wagon. Fig. 2 is a rear end elevation of the body. Fig. 3 is a perspective of one of the doublesection standards. Fig. 4 is a detail view in section of the rear end of one side of the body-frame. Fig. 5 shows one of the railsleeves. Fig. 6 is a cross-section of one of the longitudinal bottom rails.

One of the uses for which this wagon is especially designed is for brewers to haul and deliver kegs of beer to their customers. These wagons have Vertical side walls, at the top of which are outwardly-inclined sides or frames. The larger wagons of this Character are usually built for hauling sixty half-barrels at one load and require bodies of great strength. These bodies are usually heavy wood strnctures having closed sides and ends heaVily braced with irons. The objection to them is their great weight. A wagon of the class referred to when empty will weigh about thirty-'six hundred pounds. I have provided a novel construction of skeleton body-frame having the same capacity and strength that weighs only twenty-six hundred pounds.

The ends, sides, 'and outwardly-inclined parts of the wagon-body are composed of metal bars or rods of special construction to form a skeleton frame without boards or other material to inclose said parts.

Referrin g to the drawings,the letter A designates the bottom rails. These comprise a wood stringer b, a metal plate c at the bottom or underneath the stringer and of same width as the latter, and a metal plate d on top and covering the stringer and broader than the latter. The longitudinal edges of the coverplate d project oVer and beyond the edges of the stringer and are bent down at an incline d', as plainly shown in Fig. 6. The coverplate with these down-inclined edges protect the wood stringer and keep water from getting under the cover-plate. A bottom rail having this construction possesses the desired strength and at the same time lightness of weight. Projecting upward from these bottom rails are a number of forged-iron doublesection standards F. One section g is Vertical and the other section h inclined. Each Vertical section has a foot e resting on the bottom rail and is secured thereto by bolts through the holes f. Each of these standards has two eyes, one of which, fi, is at the top of the Vertical section and the other, j, is at the end of the inclined section. The entire double= section standard, including the two eyes and' the foot, is a solid metal forging,

A side rail L extends along the top of the Vertical sections of the standards and another rail N extends along the ends of the inclined Sections. .Both of these rails L and N are composed of a single solid rod k and a number of sleeVes m. A rod kextends or passes through the eyes 'i at the tops of the Vertical sections, and a sleeve mis placed on said rod and fits snugly between every two adjoining standards F, the ends of the sleeve abutting against the eyes 'L2 Thus in the present instance one rod and nine sleeves on the rod are employed to make up a rail, either L or N.

At the front of the wagon-body there is a corner-post p, which may be either Wood or metal, and the rod k of rail L has its end passed through this post, and a nut p' secures the end. The rod k of the rail N at the front passes through the cross-bar q,which extends across the front and serves as a tie-bar for the two inclined sides R. A nut q' secures the end of the rod.

At the rear end of the wagon-body is a metal-frame end-gate S, hinged at the bottom to tilt back and down. The rod k of the rail L is held at the rear end by a nut t, which jams against the rear standard F, and the end k' of this rod 7a projects and has a slot a. The end-gate has at each side an eye 'U,w hich when the gate is closed takes over the said projecting end k' of the rod, and a pin w fits in the slot u and confines the end-gate.

A cross-bar w is at the center of the wagon-' body underneath, and this bar and bar x' at the rearend of the body have ends projecting, and a braoe-bar y extends up from said projeoting ends to the side rail L. Other bracebars z have their lower ends bolted to the bottom rails and extend upWard to the rail N of the outwardly-inclined sides.

The running-gear, monnting of the seat, and canopy-top may be of any desired constrnction.

The seat-back 1 and a hanging board 2 at the rear end and below the body are employed as a sign-board to advertise the name of the wagon-owner.

The skeleton body of this construction is light in weight and relatively of greater strength for the same weight than other wagon bodies and is attraot-ive in appearance.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A skeleton body for wagons having longitndinal bottom rails; solid metal doublesection standards,F,the lower section of which is Vertical and the upper section outwardly inclined and provided with an eye at the top of the Vertical section and another eye at the end of the inclined section; and two upper rails at each side-each rail being attached to a different series of the said eyes.

2. A skeleton body for wagons having longitudinal bottom rails; metal standards secured to said rails each standard having at its top an eye; a rod eXtending the length of the body and passing through the eyes of all of said standards and having at the rear end a nut that jams against the rear standard; and a number of sleeves on said rod-one sleeve being between every two adj oining standards the ends of the sleeve abutting the said eyes.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presenoe of two witnesses.

JOHN HAYMAN J OYCE.

Vitnesses:

CHARLEs B. MANN, Jr., CHAPIN A. FERGUSON. 

